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16 CHRISTCHURCH MAIL, MAY 30, 2013
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HELPLINE
Targets met despite shifting ground
Out patients:
Patients evacuated
from Christchurch
Hospital on
February 22, 2011,
after the killer
earthquake struck.
THE CANTERBURY District
Health Board has met or exceeded
three of its six health targets in
the face of ongoing challenges and
earthquake disruption.
Chief executive David Meates
put this down to the remarkable
efforts'' of all involved.
This is often in very trying and
difficult circumstances and in an
environment where the health
needs of our community continue
to change,'' Mr Meates said.
His comments follow the release
of the third quarter national
health targets released this week.
Ninety-three per cent of the
region's eight-month-old babies
have been fully immunised,
exceeding the national target of
85 per cent.
Canterbury also achieved the
target for Maori (90 per cent) and
Pacific (90 per cent) children.
The health board also achieved
100 per cent of the Ministry of
Health national health target for
shorter waits for cancer treat-
ment.
This means that all patients
waited less than four weeks for
radiotherapy or chemotherapy
during the third quarter,'' Mr
Meates says.
The board also achieved 107 per
cent or 12,641 elective surgical
discharges in the year to date,
performing 800 more crucial
operations than required to meet
the target.
This had been complex, with
theatre capacity being used in
both the public and private sec-
tors.
Smokers remained a key focus
with the board recording a 5 per
cent increase in performance last
quarter in the Better Help for
Smokers to Quit target.
This meant 31 per cent of
patients who smoke had been seen
in primary care and offered advice
and support to quit smoking and
have this recorded.
And 90 per cent of hospitalised
smokers were offered advice and
help to quit.
More hospital patients had been
observed smoking, with a conse-
quent increase in support to quit
Mr Meates said.
Other figures show 94 per cent
of people admitted to Emergency
were discharged within six hours
-- just one per cent below the
national target.
Mr Meates said while strategies
to care for people in the com-
munity remained highly success-
ful'', reduced post-quake capacity,
ongoing major earthquake
repairs, the ongoing need to shift
and re-locate services continue to
challenge and stretch everyone.
Over the coming months signifi-
cant moves would occur as the
acute medical service returns to
Christchurch from The Princess
Margaret Hospital.
The state of play
How the Canterbury District Health Board
performed in the year to date:
Shorter stays in emergency (national target
95 per cent, Canterbury 94 per cent).
Improved access to elective surgery
(national target 16,110, Canterbury 12,641,
or 107 per cent of target.
Shorter waits for cancer treatment
(national target 100 per cent, Canterbury
100 per cent).
Increased immunisation (national target 85
per cent, Canterbury, 93 per cent).
Better help for smokers to quit (national
target 90 per cent, Canterbury 31 per cent).
More heart and diabetes checks (national
target 75 per cent, Canterbury 29 per cent).